Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Capex, Opex and Cloud Computing (MS)



  • CapEx
    • Upfront cost
    • Money spent on physical infrastructure up front. 
    • Deduct this expense from your tax bill same year. 
    • Server costs
    • Storage costs
    • Network costs
    • Backup and archive costs
    • Business continuity and disaster recovery
    • Datacentre infra costs
    • Costs on tech personnel

  • OpEx
    • Spending money on services or produts now and being billed for them now.
    • Leasing s/w and customized features
    • Scaling charges based on usage / demand instead of fixed h/w or capacity
    • Billing at the user or organization level


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